In Re Vickers

This is an appeal from a circuit court order dismissing the writ of habeas corpus issued to inquire into the legality of petitioner’s commitment to county jail by a justice of the peace for contempt for refusal to answer certain questions put to her as a people’s witness at a preliminary examination in a criminal case in which Dr. Emery J. Gilbert and others, not including petitioner, were charged with conspiracy to commit the crime of abortion on pregnant women.

The questions put to petitioner were as follows:

“Q. Did you ever go to his office?”

“Q. Miss Vickers, did you ever go to Dr.…